In September 2005, the joint expedition of archaeologists from Russian Karelia and Great Britain (Institute of Language, Literature and History, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Science and the Cambridge University) which studied Belomorsk petroglyphs and their correlations with the microlandscape made a totally unexpected discovery.

Contemporary petroglyph study has hardly researched the subject up to now.
Ancient rock art is suggested to be unable to depict the space due to special surfaces the images were made on and hieratic nature of the latter.